2Sl6 Canadian Butterjlies. 



inner-margin of tlie wing, or from one side of the body of the 

 insect to the other — spot, a regularly shaped marking of moderate 

 size — dot, a minute round spot — hand, a transverse marking, 

 wider than a line and of uniform width — line, a fine thread-like 

 marking, of uniform width — streak, stripe, an elongated marking 

 not necessarily of uniform width — lunule, a crescent-like mark 

 or spot — abbreviated, cut short — anal, of or belonging to the 

 tail or that end of the body opposite the head — anterior, that 

 which is in front or nearest the head — before the middle, between 

 the middle and the base of the wing — behind, beyond the middle, 

 between the middle and the hind-margin of the wing — bimucro- 

 hattf having two sharp points — concave, that which is hollowed 

 out, when the margin of the wing is curved inwards — convex, 

 when the margin of the wing is curved outwards — denticulated, 

 toothed or notched — dorsal, of or belonging to the back — ■ful- 

 vous, orange-tawny, or orange with a brownish tinge— furca,te 

 with two prongs or forked — lateral, of or belonging to the side 

 ■ — oblique, that which goes in a slanting direction — ocellated 

 that which has a spot with a pupil, or eye-like centre — ventral, 

 of or belonging to the belly. 



Parts. — Antennae, the horns — medial nervure, the middle rib 

 vein, or nervure, between the costa and the inner margin — 

 nervure, rib, vein, or nerve, the framework of the wing — palpi, 

 the feelers, parts of the mouth — segments, rings or divisions of 

 the body of the insect (a caterpillar consists of thirteen segments 

 numbered from the head which is the first) — spiracles, stigmata, 

 the breathing holes of the caterpillar placed along the sides above 

 the feet — tcLrsus^ the terminal portion of the leg — tentacles, (in 

 the caterpillar) feelers like those of snails, &c. — thorax, the 

 second part of the trunk or body, that part to which the wings 

 are attached— ft6*a, the third portion of the leg — tubercles,^ 

 small wart-like protuberances — ungues, Claws. 



